The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

My brain tried to process it while my heart focused on beating.

She knows exactly what I like and what it does to me. She worships my body in its entirety and I allow it—I crave it.

No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.

I said that I was gonna smash him in three rounds, and that's what I did.

In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.

People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

I was about to move out of my apartment because I was so broke. I'd sort of made a pact with myself that I wouldn't take a job unless it was interesting to me, and I became broke very fast.

It is not too late to turn things around.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.